ASUS nVidia 790i Ultra SLI Ready ,StrikerII Extreme!!

[giorgadzed]

thnxs sxs112 for info...

[malik22]

Is this chipset ddr3 only?

[dinos22]

Is this chipset ddr3 only?

yes

[schnulli]

still 570, yaik...i think nvidia gave up. and honestly, as long as they think 170F and lousy 100mb throughput in raid0 are just fine for that price, you should too...

http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/36033/135/

[GAR]

This board and a good set of DDR3 4GB is going to cost $1,000, thats about $650 more than a 780i and a good set of DDR2 4GB, do you think 5 frames per second is worth that much more??? the mainstream is still DDR2, DDR3 adopt rate is VERY!!! slow, it has been available for over 9 months and sales and prices are really bad, adoption rate is slower than DDR2 was in 2004.

[ShoNuff]

^Nice post GAR. I still bet you will probably have one of these before I do and I wanted one yesterday.

Posted elsewhere in this forum (i.e., I can't remember where I read it) someone was recently talking about "expected" price drops of DDR3 memory in Q2. I hope this to be the case as current crack-head pricing may be cost prohibitive.

[dengyong]

still 570, yaik...i think nvidia gave up. and honestly, as long as they think 170F and lousy 100mb throughput in raid0 are just fine for that price, you should too...

http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/36033/135/

Same southbridge on my 680i.

[dinos22]

This board and a good set of DDR3 4GB is going to cost $1,000, thats about $650 more than a 780i and a good set of DDR2 4GB, do you think 5 frames per second is worth that much more??? the mainstream is still DDR2, DDR3 adopt rate is VERY!!! slow, it has been available for over 9 months and sales and prices are really bad, adoption rate is slower than DDR2 was in 2004.

4GB is not necessary i reckon

You can buy some really nice DDR3 sticks for around US$250
there are some nice 2GB kits at the moment in online deals section

mmmm how much will this board or reference nvidia cost ~$300

that's $550

[schnulli]

Same southbridge on my 680i.

can you tell me how many hdd's were used? i get around 300mb/s with 4 rapotors and wb cache enabled on my ich9r. can the 570 beat that?

mmmm how much will this board or reference nvidia cost ~$300

that's $550

according to tgdaily around 350$. ehm...the ref., dunno about asus

[dinos22]

asus overcharge for their boards

reference boards are usually best anyways and cost less...
i reckon they'll probably end up being 250-300 like others

ppl quoting synthetic HDD tests
PLEASE show us how that translate to real world performance

[schnulli]

it's just this... e-thingy

[GAR]

4GB is not necessary i reckon

You can buy some really nice DDR3 sticks for around US$250
there are some nice 2GB kits at the moment in online deals section

mmmm how much will this board or reference nvidia cost ~$300

that's $550

Well, for me 4GB is min. as my main OS is Vista X64, i like it much better than XP IMO.

[dengyong]

can you tell me how many hdd's were used? i get around 300mb/s with 4 rapotors and wb cache enabled on my ich9r. can the 570 beat that?



according to tgdaily around 350$. ehm...the ref., dunno about asus

2 raptor 150's and probably not.

[initialised]

LMAO. What's the CPU_CRAZY part on that board?

All ROG boards have these LEDs, they kinda clash with the SoundMAX's blue LEDs though.

[Leeghoofd]

Will both boards have the fuzion waterblock ? Kindda love that thing on my Maximus keeps the NB 15°C cooler than passive....

[initialised]

On that subject what is the real difference between X38 and X48 as both can do DDR2 Memory dont see any other features present?

x48 = high binned x38, its a bit like calling a quad an extreme because it can handle a higher fsb. I very much doubt that 'binning' is done based on anything more than the position of the die on the wafer once a process has matured. FSB testing each die would take too long.

[initialised]

Will both boards have the fuzion waterblock ? Kindda love that thing on my Maximus keeps the NB 15°C cooler than passive....

Kinda hate the way its not a single copper pipe running water from VRMs through to the south bridge. C'mon ASUS give us a fully water cooled chipset.

[saaya]

recycling 570 chips? thats odd...
and they still didnt learn their lesson... why do they put a pciE x1 slot on the top instead of between the pciE 16x slots to give extra space for heatsinks/airflow/pots?

[gundamit]

I'll wait for the v1.1 version which is rumored to have an underclocking jumper called CPU_retarded.

[Dan_c]

I'll wait for the v1.1 version which is rumored to have an underclocking jumper called CPU_retarded.

[bingo13]

Pics are here - 790i Pics

[dinos22]

500MHz FSB on dual core
800Mhz 6-6-6
nice start

wonder if we'll be seeing some 1200+ RAM speeds and 600MHz FSB

[vladimir]

Im digging the 1x pci-e above the first 16x slot for sound card that is a good feature imo

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...k=&srchInDesc=

OMFG! ASUS finally wised up and quit reversing the top 1x PCI-e slot?!? At least that is what the manual pics show.

I never could understand why they reversed that slot on the Striker Extreme.

Also from the AnandTech photos, it looks like the BIOS chip is no longer replaceable. I hope ASUS' BIOS group doesn't brick the mobos with iffy BIOS updates.

[Dan_c]

525 fsb for Quad, with 1:1 RAM!!!

that's what I'd like to see....

[dinos22]

525 fsb for Quad, with 1:1 RAM!!!

that's what I'd like to see....

you'd like to see the impossible

how many Intel boards have you seen do that on normal cooling :S